The tests for a given job in the military are legally required to be gender and age neutral. This silly dink is lying. As it says in the article:
The basic physical fitness tests differ across military services and are typically adjusted by age and gender.
“These are basically just to see if this person is fit to be in the military, whether they’re a heart surgeon or a Catholic chaplain or a combat person,” Manning said. “But for every single job in the military, there’s also a set of occupational standards that have to be met. And the law says that they must be gender and age neutral.”
By not voting, the other 40% helped put Trump in office. When the trolly is heading down the tracks to kill the lady in distress, sitting on your ass and doing nothing makes you complicit.
You guess? A rotting pile of fetid dingo kidneys would be better than Rick Scott.
Voice of America sounds quite bigoted, racist, and sexist... I guess that tracks.
Something like this maybe?
And I bet they add some lines to the pledge of allegiance too. They'll squeeze Trump's name in there somehow. After all, these people think he's the second coming.
Corporations always get in the mindset of, "Rake in the profits now and well deal with the consequences later." When the consequences are decades away, it never really becomes later to them. They just focus on the profits.
These are civil trials, not criminal, and can not it be pardoned.
Rose said online that she told an officer she’d been assaulted and the cop said, “Well, you went to his door.”
Clearly the rule of law is dead now.
“Nobody should be turning up at any bodies [sic] house uninvited,” Tate posted Monday. “Harassment.”
These idiots somehow think that assaulting and robbing someone who rings their doorbell is the appropriate thing to do.
The alt-right reaction is never the right reaction.
It is not a formula for a successful presidency
That all depends on how you define successful, doesn't it. I rather think Trump has a different definition than most of us.
They're running out of forest, aren't they?
I'm not sure that's true. Deregulation will certainly boost corporate profits, but it will also ramp up inflation and depress wages as corporations maximize those profits. This is one of those, the economy is flourishing because the markets are rocketing up while the poors are losing their homes.
Maybe not. The Republicans haven't secured the house yet. Several races remain undetermined and the Dems could take it.
Now. if I were writing this season, I would let the Dems win. Then have Trump and Vance both pass away (Trump: heart, Vance: An accident involving a reclining couch) and with a Dem house we'd end up with President Hakeem Jeffries who could then appoint Kamala Harris as VP again. Every cranium in the nation with a MAGA cap perched on it would simultaneously explode.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that people who cannot be bothered to vote shouldn't really count.
What makes you think Vance wouldn't be worse? He's knee deep in Project 2025 and seems more than willing to see that through to the end.
Correct. Slightly more than one third of the population are still celebrating and slightly less than one third are already regretting it. Those are the two thirds who actually voted. The final third haven't actually noticed we had an election yet because they never bother to participate. If any of them pull their heads out of their asses at some point, they will likely regret it too, but I wouldn't put money on it.
Prices on everything will skyrocket if he follows through with this.
Oh. My. God. Will you be my friend?!
Not how it works. Gestures, like words, have a meaning. Even in the USA, saying certain words in certain ways can get you arrested; harassment, threats, etc. This gesture is meant to convey threat and to harass religious and racial minorities. There is no other reason to make the gesture.
I am not saying that they are losing on purpose. I'm saying that they are making decisions about policies and candidates based on fund raising rather than on attracting voters. On purpose or not, they did shoot themselves in the foot by courting disaffected Republican voters. Everyone knew they were not going to win a lot of those voters, but they sure did rake in a lot of dough. I believe that is their primary motivation.
It is absolutely clear now. The DNC is a private company whose main function is to fund raise, period. If they also win an election then that's great, but if it comes to a choice between winning and raising money, they will choose raising money. They will never move to the left to win voters if it will cost them fund raising opportunities from the center and right.
Mike Davis threatened the New York AG, saying: “We will put your fat a-- in prison.”
Actual quote (video included in link):
>“I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” he threatened. “Because listen here, sweetheart: We’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat a-- in prison for conspiracy against rights, and I promise you that.”
Welcome to the new regime.
Several social media users, including commentators and reporters, on Wednesday claimed that Democrats are allegedly sitting on a 'bombshell' video showing former President Donald Trump 'groping a minor' at a donor event. No official or Republican campaign member has reacted to the claims yet. There ...
No video released yet but the right wing blog-sphere is already claiming it's AI. Put on your seat-belts and keep your hands inside the car at all times.
Northern Lights from SW Virginia last night(3 sec exposure on phone cam)
Forgot to include the [OC] in the title.
Donald Trump, the first former U.S. president ever convicted on 34 felony counts, faced a torrent of scorn and ridicule after he declared, “A criminal is a criminal, they generally stay a criminal,” during a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota on Saturday.
Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.
Republicans pile on Biden to resign after he quits 2024 race
Republicans, in one of the more moronic takes of the election season, say that if Biden is too old to run for office, then he's too old to hold the office and should resign.
Fulton County prosecutors filed an emergency request for a protective order in the Georgia election subversion case on Tuesday after recorded statements made by multiple defendants as part of their…
Fulton County prosecutors filed an emergency request for a protective order in the Georgia election subversion case on Tuesday after recorded statements made by multiple defendants as part of their plea deals were made public.
On Monday, ABC News and The Washington Post published footage of the proffer sessions, which showed the four defendants who pleaded guilty being questioned by prosecutors about their involvement in various efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Prosecutors said the footage was turned over to the remaining defendants as part of discovery, urging the court to impose restrictions on how the defendants can disclose the materials.
“The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant,” prosecutors wrote in their motion.
To prevent further disclosure, prosecutors said they will not provide videos of any proffer sessions to defendants moving forward.
“Instead, defendants must come to the District Attorney’s Office to view confidential video recordings of proffers. They may take notes, but they will be prohibited from creating any recordings or reproductions,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.
Trump breaks yet another law
Trump has come under scrutiny after a gun was auctioned off at a fundraiser held in his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, home.
Last weekend, an auction held at his Florida home saw the item, described as "a one of a kind Trump Glock from the 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump," go up for bidding during a charity event. Pictures circulating on social media show the gun being presented at the auction, with news website Meidas Touch saying that bidding for the item began at $10,000.
However, the transaction could land the former U.S. president in considerable trouble, given that federal law prohibits those under indictment from transacting firearms. Trump is embroiled in active legal proceedings, having testified at a civil trial over the New York investigation into financial fraud at the Trump Organization. The former president has denied all wrongdoing and repeatedly said that the ongoing federal and civil cases against him are part of a political witch hunt.